DAVOUT (Louis). Correspondence of 6 autograph... - Lot 40 - Osenat

DAVOUT (Louis). Correspondence of 6 autograph letters signed (5 of his name, one of his initial), to his wife Aimée Leclerc. 1807-1808. PULTUSK, January 22 [1807]. Letter written less than a month after the famous battle: "I strongly desire, my very good friend, that the letters I write to you reach you more exactly than yours, I do not have many acknowledgements of receipt to make to you, your exactitude and your attachment are too well known to me to be able to attribute this scarcity of your news to other causes than the post office. Everything that interests you is in perfect health...". (1 p. 1/2 in-4). - OSTROLENKA [Ostrołęka], January 30 [1807]. Letter written two weeks before the famous battle: "I am on the run for a few days, my little Aimée, however while it lasts I must take my side and resign myself to the most pœnsible deprivation, that of not receiving news from you. I will take advantage of every opportunity to give you some of mine and I recommend that you have NO CONCERN ABOUT MY HEALTH, IT IS EXCELLENT AND CAN SUPPORT THE COLD, which is not excessive. When I left Pultusk, I received your letter containing a note asking for information about a soldier in whom Fontaine is interested. My journey will delay this information but it will be taken, I will not lose sight of this object..." (1 p. 1/2 in-4, address on the back, remnant of red wax seal with the name and monogram of Louis-Nicolas Davout with marshal's batons, small tears due to the opening without affecting the text). - Skierniewice [between Łódź and Warsaw], October 28 [1807]. " ... The bad weather has just resumed and it deprives me of running in the countryside and of taking a much-needed exercise..." (3/4 p. in-4). Marshal Davout had received a large endowment on the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, based on the property of the former principality of Łowicz, which included, among other things, the palace at Skierniewice near Warsaw. - Skierniewice, January 1 [1808]. " ... You announce to me that you have been anticipated and that the hotel of Rohan-Chabot has been bought. I repeat that I will approve everything you do and that I will never see folly in the acquisition you make, whatever it may be, it will be enough for me that it suits you to have my full and complete approval. I beg you to excuse my laconism, my dear Aimée, I want to get all the work done today before the orderly leaves and I have some pressing matters. I hope that the arrival of the 29,000 f. will have relieved you a little, but HOW CAN YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THE EMBARRASSMENT, THE MAJOR-GENERAL [LOUIS-ALEXANDRE BERTHIER] HAVING 300,000 WHICH HE WILL HAND OVER TO YOU UPON HIS ARRIVAL [DOTATION WHICH NAPOLEON I HAVE JUST GIVEN TO HIM so that he can buy a private mansion and hold his rank]. With such a pledge, Chadelas and Gl HULIN [the inspector of reviews Jean-Charles Chadelas and general Pierre-Augustin Hulin] will do you the service of advancing you what will be necessary to get you out of trouble... ". (1 p. 2/3 in-4, address on the back, remnant of a red wax seal with the name and monogram of Louis-Nicolas Davout with marshal's batons, small tears due to the opening without affecting the text). - Skierniewice, February 23 [1808]. " ... I am obliged to postpone my promise to give you in the greatest detail the reasons which determined me to no longer listen to my desires to engage you to make the voyage... these explanations will be long and I will give them to you at the first moment that I will have to myself; but in the meantime, if my stay here should be prolonged and that you cannot obtain for me the permission to go to Paris, there would be no more motives..." (1 p. 1/4 in-4, address on the back, remnant of a red wax seal with the name and monogram of Louis-Nicolas Davout with marshal's batons, small tears due to the opening without affecting the text). - Skierniewice, March 22 [1808]. "Desessart [General Nicolas-Marin Leclerc Des Essarts, brother of Marshal Davout], my dear Aimée, is leaving right now for Strasbourg. Let us assume that it is there that you will go, because I wrote you... He is passing through Dresden, where he will find 6,000 francs which he can use for your trip and his own... He will warn me in advance of your arrival so that I can go to meet you as far as I can. If the service and the circumstances had allowed me to move away from Warsaw, I would have been on the border... Receive, my good beautiful Aimée, a thousand kisses from your loving husband L. Davout" (2 pp. in-4).